Happy Birthday, Blue Ivy Carter!

Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s eldest child turns 14 on Wednesday (Jan. 8), meaning the 15th anniversary of Queen Bey’s iconic MTV Video Music Awards “Love on Top” pregnancy reveal is fast approaching. From that instantly iconic moment, which sent the star-studded audience and the greater Internet into an absolute frenzy, Blue Ivy has steadily made a name for herself across music, film and fashion.

Just days after her birth, Blue made history as the youngest person to ever appear on a Billboard chart. In 2012, her father dropped “Glory,” a No. 23 Hot Rap Songs hit, on which she’s credited as B.I.C. Her cries and coos can be heard across that track, just as they are on “Blue,” her mother’s aptly titled 2013 ballad. By 2015, the young star sang in the backing choir for Coldplay‘s “Up&Up,” a standout from the band’s A Head Full of Dreams LP. With 2019’s “Brown Skin Girl,” Blue Ivy finally got a chance to properly sing on a song with her mother, which resulted in a shared Grammy win for best music video.

By the turn of the 2020s, Blue Ivy shifted her attention to voice acting. She won a Voice Arts Award for best voiceover – children’s audiobook, thanks to her narration of Oscar-winning filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love. In 2024, she made her feature film debut in Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King as Princess Kiara. The film grossed over $720 million at the worldwide box office and earned Carter an NAACP Image Award for outstanding character voice performance — motion picture.

Last year, Blue Ivy joined her mother as a full-time background dancer on the historic Cowboy Carter Tour, which finished 2025 as the highest-grossing trek by a solo artist, according to Billboard Boxscore. On that stadium tour, Carter blossomed into an even stronger and more confident dancer and performer, easily topping her show-stealing cameos at 2023’s Renaissance World Tour. Now armed with a fanbase of her own, the Ivy League, and a signature look, thanks to her adorable boho braids, it feels like we’re just a few years removed from Blue Ivy ruling the world.

In honor of Blue Ivy Carter’s 14th birthday, Billboard has rounded up the seven best music moments of her career so far.